On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:13:46PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 06:44:34AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:14:01 +0200 > > Olav Vitters <olav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> dijo: > > > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:31:59PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: > > > > Seems VERY sluggish, the Gnome Desktop takes forever to start, and most > > > > > If only the starting is very sluggish, try running either > > > fc-cache -f > > > or (if you have a new enough version): > > > fc-cache -r > > > as root and under your normal user account > > > > I can't find any documentation. What does the fc command do? Or where > > is it documented? > > fc-cache is part of fontconfig. Fontconfig handles all the fonts. It > uses caches otherwise every app will take 30secs to startup due to > fontconfig being busy reading the fonts. Another solution I've seen is to make sure that 127.0.0.1 localhost is in your /etc/hosts file... maybe the desktop is doing hostname lookups and timing out or something. -- Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxx> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
